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WISER Science Finding quality information on the internet Monday, 20 November 2006 Karen Langdon & Penny Roberts

Web Search Tools Meta search engines Portals Web directories

Choosing a Search Engine Size, content and currency Search facilities Ease of use (Help facilities) Quantity and precision of results Presentation of results (customisation)

Academic Search Engines Scirus Google Scholar

Search engines Beware! Ranking can be manipulated Sponsored sites appear first

Search techniques Advanced Search techniques Boolean operators Proximity operators Truncation Synonyms Web operators http://www.google.co.uk/help/cheatsheet.html

Evaluating web resources Reliable Verifiable Current Specific/Comprehensive Objective

Wikis Check Edit page Look out for editor’s notes Look at Talk page/Discussion May be uninformed May express personal opinions, grievances

Feedback You will get an e-mail with the online evaluation form in due course

Next session: Conferences This session will enable you to find out about forthcoming conferences and also to locate the published papers of proceedings that have taken place Monday, 27 November 2006 Roger Mills